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No. 337,763. Patented MaI-.9, 1383.

N. PETERS. Plwn-Uthagnphar. Wnhington. DAL

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEc JOHN H. GULICK, OF SYRAOUSE, NEV YORK.

BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,763, dated March 9, 1886.

' Application nieu gramme, issn. serial No. 181,412.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. GULTCK, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baskets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My invention is in the nature of an improved basket to be used for holding, measur ing, and other purposes, after the manner of the well-known bushel-basket; and it has for its object to provide an article of this class which will be durable in wear and cheap to manufacture.

With these objects in View, it consists in certain details of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, which I shall now proceed to fully describe, and the specic points of novelty in which I shall particularly designate in the claim hereto appended.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows a piece of canvas of suit-able shape to form the body, and a flange to which to attach the bottom of my improved basket. Fig. 2 is an inverted perspective view showing the canvas bent into the desired shape to form the body of a basket. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the canvas in shape for the body, the folds being turned over to form a flange for the attachment of thc bottom. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken through the center of the basket complete.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts in all the iigures in which they may occur.

Referring more particularly to the drawings by letters, A is a strip or blank of canvas of the proper shape to form when bent, as hereinafter described, the body and an inward projecting flange at the bottom thereof, for the purpose of attachment of the bottom of the basket. It is in the form of a section of a ring cut on radial lines in order that, when bent, it will form a frustum of a cone, as shown in Fig. 2, and its inner edge is slitted, forming iiaps or ears a, which, when folded over as shown in Fig. 3, constitute an inward (No model.)

projecting flange to which the bottom of my improved basket is to be attached. When this blank is bent into the form shown in Fig. 2, its ends slightly overlapping, it is, as before described, slightly tapering. rIhe slits are then onthe smaller end of the conic frustum, which end is at the bottom of the basket when formed. After properly securing the seam b in any suitable manner the iiange before mentioned is formed by folding the ears or iiaps as shown in Fig. 3 at G, each adjoining fiap projecting over the next and forming a very strong attaching medium, it being for a great portion of its extent of a double thickness, as distinctly shown in Fig. 4. A disk or circular piece of canvas is now placed on the inside of this flange and asimilar disk on the outside thereof, as shown at large E and F in Fig. 4. These parts are securely fastened together either by nails or rivets,or by sewing, the overlapping flaps a a, which form the flange, being glued together, and the two disks being glued or cemented to this flange and to each other. This structure is of itself complete so far as is necessary to form a basket, but it is necessary that it be made rigid or stiffened. I therefore provide stiffening-ribs B B, which I attach on the inner side of the basket, and which extend from the top thereof, and are secured at the top to an inner ring, e'. A similar ring, e, is secured on the outside of the top of the basket, between which and the ring e', previously mentioned, the canvas body A and the stiffeningribs B are securely held. These stiening ribs and top rings are firmly secured to the flanges and to each other by clinched nails or tacks, or by riveting and gluing or cementing thereto.

The handles I) D are secured by means of clinched staples passing around them,through the canvas, and into the stiffening-ribs and top rims.

The stiffening-ribs and the rings or bands may be made of wood or Inetal,in which latter case rivets would be used.

The parts having been secured together, as before described, are coated with paint or any suitable waterproofing or preservative compounds, which may be done in any ofthe usual ways, as by applying with a brush or dipping.

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If desired, the structure may be saturated in a reproofing compound, so that when used to hold or convey hot ashes or like material the basket Will not be injured thereby.

The basket, constructed as hereinbeforc described, possesses many advantageous features. The bottom, being of four thicknesses in its most exposed portions, is very durable. The body is suflciently rigid for general use, but at the same time is not so rigid or inflexible as to be subject to fracture when roughly han dled or thrown about. The structure is substantially Water-proof, and may be made entirely so. The material of which the 'device is constructed is cheap and very durable.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

4own I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.'

yJOHN H. GULIOK.

Witnesses:

ANsoN CARPENTER, WM. N. J ENKINs. 

